all shops missing items/rotten?

[Alakeram]

so. first play through all shops had SOMETHING im them, next play through all shops have nothing in them or rotten food, the only place i can get non-rotten origani(SP?) is the souvinier(SP?) vendor at the harbor and i cannot get ANY accessorys at any of the clothing vendors, when you click on the buy option the screen glitches out and goes right back to buy change sell.... any work arounds seeing as this is obviously a bug/glitch?

[Jacopo Beanman]

or you obviously were being a ♥♥♥♥ to NPCs at random...

items in shops appear to be affected by crime rate AND timeline in the story. having a bad crime rate, prices go up, with less/crappy things to buy.

having a great crime rate, prices go down, with more/useful things to buy.

[Fresh Yuuka]

Crime rate. What is your crime rate? If its low enough, most people will have much less of a selection in their inventory. If there is nothig for them to sell, thats what it will do I believe.

[Nasami]

It's not a glitch, the it goes back to buy/sell because the vendors have nothing to sell and the reason there are a bunch of rotten food items and such is most likely because you have a terrible crime rate. Stop stealing stuff, murdering people and sleeping outside.

[Alakeram]

lol that carrys over from other save games? i didn't know -_- how do i fix the crime rate?

[Alakeram]

by save games i mean other play throughs

[Nasami]

Everything carries over. Crime Rate, Dojo Members, Which buildings are open/closed, weapons, money and items you've collected.

[Thatisdifficult]

Crime Rate info from a faq:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps3/611500-way-of-the-samurai-4/faqs/64880?page=5#section741

Tells what affects crime rate.

[Alakeram]

So instead of the game being like WOTS1,2,3 where you just start over with the stuff you left with, your pretty much in a sense playing as another samurai going to that town! that makes a TON more sense (except for the fact that dojo members still recognize you as thier leader -_-)